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| Historical, Practical, Theoretical | Bicameral Congress |
| Number of people in Congress | 535 |
| Congressional Term in the House of Representatives | 2 years |
| Congressional Term in the Senate | 6 years |
| Noon on the 3rd of January | Beginning and Ending of Congressional Term |
| Adjournment of Congress | Sine die |
| Adjourn | suspend |
| Prorogue | Article II, Sec 3 of Constitution "end or discontinue a session of congress" |
| A meeting to deal with some emergency | Special Session of Congress called for by the President |
| Apportioned | distributed among the states of basis of population |
| reapportion | redistribution of seat in the House of Representive based on decennial Census |
| Census | Counting of the Population of the United States |
| Number of members in the House of Representatives | 435 |
| Number of members in the United States Senate | 100 |
| Determines the number of seats each state should have in the House of Representatives | Census |
| Tuesday following the first Monday in November | Congressional election day |
| Elections held between Presidential election years | off-year elections |
| voters in each district elect one member for the distict | single-member districts |
| voters elect all members of congress from the state as a whole | at-large elections |
| when districts are drawn up in each state to the advantage of one political party that controls the state legislature | gerrymandering |
| "one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's" | Wesberry v. Sanders, 1964 Georgia |
| 25 yrs of age, citizen of the U.S. and inhabitant of state they represent | Formal Qualifications for member of the House of Representatives |
| vote getting ability, party identification, name recognition, gender, ethnic identification, political experience | Informal Qualifications for membership in congress |
| Number of states in the United States | 50 |
| Originally provided that its members be elected by state legislatures | Members of the Senate |
| Continuous Body | The senate |
| Number of years a person may serve in the senate | 6 yrs |
| 30 yrs of age, citizen of the United States, inhabitant of the state they represent | Qualifications for a Senator |
| Average member of Congress | 50 year old, white male |
| 68 members in the House/14 members in the Senate (2005) | Women in Congress |
| Legislator,representative, committee member, servant to constituents and politician | Major roles for members of congress |
| Votes on the belief that each question should be answered on its merits (Independent Judgement) | Trustees |
| Owe their first allegiance to political party | partisans |
| The screening of proposals is accomplished in this format | Committee |
| Congress checking to see that the executive branch is workking effectively | Oversight function |
| Help solve individual constituent problems via the federal bureaucracy | Servant role of Congress |
| Average salary of members of congress | $158,000 |
| Vice-Presidential Salary and Speaker of the House Salary | $192,600 |
| President Pro-Tem, Majority and Minority leaders Salary | $171,900 |
